Year 2011

Newark/Farnell Product Review

It seems the Big Mess o’ Wires blog has reached the threshold where companies will send their products to be reviewed. I’m flattered. Newark (or Farnell for those of you in Europe, Element 14 in Asia) has kindly offered to…

Happy Mac

Things are starting to warm up now. I’ve successfully booted Plus Too as far as the Happy Mac startup icon! It’s not booting all the way into the Finder yet, but most of the tricky business with the IWM, floppy,…

Crazy Disk Encoding Schemes

Wow. I expected the details of the Macintosh floppy data encoding to be a bit complex, but this is worse than I expected. I think I finally understand it well enough to duplicate it, but I can’t explain why it…

Chris Stemple's custom Logger Mini build

Backcountry Logger Mini Custom Build

Chris Stemple has finished the first custom build of a BMOW project by a reader, with a great-looking build of the Backcountry Logger Mini. Using some spare room on a panel from InternationalCircuits.com, Chris added and removed a few things from…

Mac Floppy Disk Hardware

Ugh, I’ve been going around in circles trying to settle on the best way to add a floppy disk replica to Plus Too. I’ve been thinking about this way too much, and now I’ve got visions of sync bytes dancing in…

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